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Daniel Flitton is senior correspondent for The Age covering foreign affairs and politics. He is a former intelligence analyst for the Australian government and was at one-time a university lecturer specialising in international relations.

Daniel Flitton
Australians would happily host a dinner party with Barack Obama as guest of honour, welcome Hillary Clinton and Pope Francis to the table as warm friends – and gladly see Vladimir Putin suffer...

Daniel Flitton
An Egyptian man falsely accused of murder who fled to Australia, only to be branded by Tony Abbott as a convicted jihadist "kept behind a pool fence", remains isolated from his family in a Sydney...

Daniel Flitton
Australia's final days on the United Nations Security Council will be spent grappling with a Palestinian bid to impose an international peace plan to end the decades-long conflict with Israel.

Daniel Flitton
It was television news that changed the world, forced wealthy Western audiences in their living rooms to confront pitiful, starving African children and drove Irish rocker Bob Geldof on a quest to...

Daniel Flitton
It might seem small beer, what money can be raised from a suburban backyard in Melbourne. But when small amounts of cash for nefarious purposes can be collected from hundreds, if not thousands, of...